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Word: player (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody wants to play with me. My roommates have exams and don't appreciate my dribbling drills. I don't own cross-country skis, and there's no snow anyway. The Lowell House superintendent says I'm such a bad squash player I should not get court time. And E. Sid says he's tired of losing free-throw shooting contests to a girl...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Ennui and Expectations | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...been all right for Terry Bradshaw, 30, in his ninth and finest season in the N.F.L. He led the Steelers to their third Super Bowl with a brilliant year: completing 207 of 368 passes (56.3%) for 2,995 yds. and 28 touchdowns, and winning the A.P.'s N.F.L. Player of the Year Award. The No. 1 draft pick of 1970 has become the No. 1 quarterback of 1978, and nobody laughs about his chewing tobacco any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Duel at the Super Bowl | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...team continues to award the famous Three-Lemons rating to The Most Embarrassing Player of the Game. Tom "Silk" Russo's performance of unnatural acts to score from the low post area against several rival earned him one of his two awards this season. Rich "Machine Gun" Bengel also chalked up the Three-Lemon for setting a personal scoring high of 24 points against Dean Junior College...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Harvard's Vagabond Cagers | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Classics' Development Officer, Gary "Bigfoot" Bosnic described his colleagues as "a bunch of idiots." Tim Carey, whose player notes read, 'May surprise, but we doubt it,' said, "They get girls...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Harvard's Vagabond Cagers | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Terry Bradshaw, who was named the game's most valuable player, dominated the exciting, but mistake-filled contest, passing for four touchdowns and 313 yards in the offensive orgy witnessed by nearly 80,000 at the Orange Bowl in Miami and a national television audience estimated at 125 million...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Steelers Win Super Bowl In Offensive Battle, 35-31 | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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